Title: "Magical"

Summary: Peter had never understood what Nathan saw in blondes…until now. Implied Peter/Emma

Notes: Apologies for the title. I had no idea what to call this one. General references to "Ink" and "Hysterical Blindness"

As far back as Peter could remember, Nathan had always had a thing for blondes. The first girl Nathan had teased on the playground had had blonde curls that he had pulled. When they had gotten older, Peter had seen his brother date women who did not have blonde hair, but time and again, the ambitious young man always went back to blondes.

Peter had never really understood it. He had once asked his brother what was so special about women with blonde hair. Nathan had been getting ready for his senior prom, fixing his bow tie and smoothing his hair back in front of his bedroom mirror.

"I can't really explain it, man. It's just…something about 'em. It's magical. One day, you'll understand," his sibling had assured him, laying a hand on his shoulder.

So, Peter had waited for that understanding. He started dating, went to his own senior prom, but he had never found anything about blonde women to make him think they were more special than others.

That was, he supposed, why he wasn't terribly surprised when Nathan announced that he was marrying Heidi, a brunette. He had thought that Nathan had just come to the same conclusion he himself had reached so many years ago. He learned later that he had been wrong, causing that nagging question to reassert itself.

It was there in the back of his mind when he met Emma. At first, Peter had not initially felt a strong pull to her. There had been no bolt of lightning from the sky, no heavenly voices singing or harps playing.

He hadn't really expected anything of that sort, but he had been hoping for something to tell him she was special. "Magical," as Nathan had said.

Then, the day after he met her, he had seen a kind of magic he had never witnessed before. And Emma had been the one to show it to him.

He understood what Nathan had seen in blondes after that.